I'm no food photographer but it was SO yummy I had to take a pic!
Well since my Aunt Dee & Uncle Bill were up from Arizona we decided to have a BBQ at our place the day before they headed home. We spent that morning grocery shopping, cleaning up the house, slicing veggies, making patties...and talking about how much we wished my Dad could be there with us....no really, it's just the onions, they're making my eyes water.... It just doesn't seem right having family events without him there with us... :-( It's been over 3 months now since he's been in the hospital and that's not even counting all the times in the ICU before that. Too long. I want my dad back, I want Bailey's papa back...he's missing out on everything :-(
Eventually my mom, Dee & Bill showed up. They asked me to help get things out of the car -which of course I thought was a bit strange since there are 3 of them and I thought they were just bringing ice cream but being the nice daughter, neice & hostess I am, I headed out to the car with them to help carry the heavy quart of vanilla. Imagine my surprise when I discovered it was not an overload of Dreyers they had stashed in the car but MY DAD! In the CAR, NOT at the rehab center. NOT in a hospital room, in the car, in MY DRIVEWAY, coming to MY HOUSE. I'm not someone who's good with words so I can't even begin to say how special that was to see him here, to have him in my home again but I'm sure you can imagine :-) And what a sneaky, sneaky mom I have, huh? She kept it a secret so she could see the look on me and Greg's faces when we saw Dad :-)
Dad & his sister :-)
Hmm they don't look related at all, do they? ;-)
Bailey with the blanket made by Aunt Dee
Bailey & Uncle Bill visiting the neighbor's dog
